The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 61

‘Why those were the runaways, of course,’ she cried, flying into a passion, ‘and if you had only brought a scrap of the nun’s dress, or a bit of stone from the wall, I should have had them in my power.’

Who acts: wife, you, runaways · What happens: be, cry, fly, bring, have · To what, where: runaways, passion, scrap, wall, power

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, runaways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	47 had	advmod
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 runaways	det
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 runaways	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 runaways	det
6	runaways	runaway	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 had	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 course	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 course	case
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 runaways	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 runaways	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flying	punct
15	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 passion	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 passion	det
18	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ‘	punct
20	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passion	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 brought	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 brought	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 brought	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 brought	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 brought	advmod
26	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cried	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 scrap	det
28	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 dress	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nun	det
31	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dress	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 nun	case
33	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scrap	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bit	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 bit	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bit	det
37	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scrap	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 stone	case
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bit	nmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 wall	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wall	det
42	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brought	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 runaways	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 had	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 had	aux
47	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 power	case
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 power	nmod:poss
51	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that runaways and course			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	wife				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	gerund	wife not said here			into a passion and ‘ result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result
4	bring a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you	a scrap of the nun's dress	the wall		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme from wall=Initial_Location
5	have	should · perfect	that runaways and course	passion	my power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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